America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
“Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.”
“By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.”